Think Crimes, Hate Crimes
Vile and Hateful

By Bob Beers
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A number of liberal commenters, several of them claiming to be conservative, have used rather direct language to point out that my rhetoric is hateful, vile and dangerous. One, slightly more politic than the others wrote this:

“Gallup Poll’s show that a substantial majority of the American public favors the expansion of federal hate crime legislation to include crimes against people based on their gender, sexual orientation and gender identity; 68 percent in favor, 27 percent oppose and 5 percent no opinion.

Now that President Obama has signed the Defense Bill that includes the Hate Crimes measure into law that was named for Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming teenager who died after being kidnapped, robbed and severely beaten in October 1998, and James Byrd Jr., an African-American man dragged to his death in Texas the same year.

Worried about losing your freedom of speech? Worry only if you or someone who hears your hateful rhetoric and acts on it, should you be concerned.â€